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SOFREP Radio

Jake Zweig: Former Navy SEAL, Football Coach, Reality Show Host

SOFREP Radio

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Entertainment News, Government, News, History

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s podcast, Rad welcomes back Jake Zweig on the show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to software, radio, special operations, military meals, and straight talk with the guys in the community.

0:30.0

Hey, what's going on? This is Rad with Soft Rep Radio, and I am excited to introduce my first guest, Jake Zwig, former US Navy SEAL, football coach, and entrepreneur.

0:55.0

I have to put that out there. Jake, welcome to Soft Rep Radio. Glad to have you.

1:00.0

Rad, good to be on the first fucking show. Hopefully you don't break this motherfucker, and they don't kick us off.

1:07.0

You know, that's the beauty of the, you know, we don't have to deal with the FCC dealing with all the customers and everything.

1:13.0

So I'm glad to have me, man. I'm glad you having me. You know, Brandon, fucking the web, having me, and Soft Rep.

1:20.0

It's been a while since I've done tour of some Soft Rep shit now.

1:24.0

Well, it's always a pleasure. You know, I get the opportunity to go around and host like boxing events for Soft Rep, where it's Navy SEALs versus SAS in London, or, you know, I'm going out and meeting with, you know, Charlie from the SEAL team in New York, who has Charlie Mike precision and interviewing these guys, meeting people like yourself and just getting to know you and speaking of that.

1:46.0

I know a little bit about you. And before I got this lined up to meet you, I was like, why do I know you? I'm looking at you as we're talking yesterday, because we have some technical difficulties.

1:56.0

And I was like, oh, I know you're from the survival show. Do your screwed. And I have to say, I just love watching you make your way through the episodes.

2:07.0

Tell me, how did you get cast in that?

2:10.0

So man, that's one of them crazy ass stories, man. So I'm going to put it to you this way. I volunteered. I put my name in to go on top shot season three.

2:20.0

Okay. I thought it was like a legit ass competition. So I just put a sentiment email, black Navy SEAL, Naval Academy graduate college football coach.

2:30.0

No bullshit. My phone rang two minutes late. Okay. We want you on the show. Okay. Cool.

2:37.0

So I went out to the tryouts to try out some bullshit. I told them they were bullshit. I left.

2:42.0

They called me so you made the show. I got excited. Showed them to the show. The whole thing's fucking rig. The whole TV show rig.

2:51.0

They know who's winning the TV show. The second that they start filming it. And they make sure that person gets to win. Period. Like that's, that's the name of the game.

3:01.0

So anyway, I walked off that TV show episode 10 because I had told them you give me a fucking gun that don't work again. I'm out of here.

3:11.0

Okay. Right. They gave me a gun that didn't work, right? I fucking threw up the peace sign and rolled up off the show.

3:18.0

Well, the episode before I rolled off had 2.4 million viewers. That's pretty good. And what year was this 2011? That's good.

3:29.0

Yeah. How many people you think the episode after I rolled off the TV show had? How many? How many people you think left after I left?

3:37.0

You tell me I bet you have 1.5 million people left the TV show. And they were left with 900,000 viewers and got canceled that week.

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